Marian Stewart
MBACP
Hello, I am a Counsellor/Psychotherapist experienced in working with adults, young people and children. I have late afternoon and evening appointments available. Taking the first step isn’t always easy; however the rewards can be life changing!
I believe our life experience affects our perceptions and way of being; the relationships we have with ourselves, others and our environment. I encourage my clients to explore what is troubling them and find their own inner resources by offering a safe space where they will be listened to, free of any judgement or direction by me. Incorporated into my approach I use the insight from Existential, Psychoanalytical, Attachment, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Transactional Analysis with therapy tailored to each individual client as we are all unique!
I am fully insured and as a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy abide by their Ethical Framework with a commitment to continuous professional development.
In a voluntary capacity I hold a current Enhanced DBS Certificate for both vulnerable adults and children.
Experience
- Ongoing Private Practice
- Connect Adult Counselling Service 2019 to 2021
- All Farthing Primary School – school counsellor 2017 to 2019
- St. Lawrence Primary School Governor with special responsibility for Special Educational Needs and Safeguarding 2010 to 2018
Training, qualifications & experience
- CPCAB Level 5 Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling
- CPCAB Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
- CPCAB Level 4 Certificate in Counselling Children
- TQUK Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Autism
- NOCN Level 2 Elklan Speech and Language Support
- City and Guilds NVQ Early Years Care and Education Level 3
Additional Training and CPD
- Applying CBT to Children and Adolescents
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Suicide and Self Harm
- Working with Bereavement and Complex Grief
- Impact of Covid 19 on BAME Communities
- Working with Psychiatric Drugs
- Disordered Eating and Attachment
- What works in Humanistic School-Based Counselling
- Safeguarding and Managing Risk through Digital Media
- Level 2 How to do Counselling Online – A Coronavirus Primer
- Safeguarding Leadership Training 2023
- Applying CBT to Children and Adolescents
- Overcoming Stress and Anxiety
- Working with Sensory Impairment
- Mother-Daughter Attachment
- Taming the Inner Critic
- Attachment and Shame
- Releasing Blocked Emotions
Memberships & Accreditations
Areas of counselling I work with
- Addiction
- ADHD
- Anxiety
- ASD/Neurodivergent
- Bereavement and Loss
- Birth and Bonding
- Bullying (adults)
- Children's Support
- Chronic Illness and Pain
- Depression
- Divorce and Separation
- Emotional Abuse
- Faith and Culture
- Learning Difficulties
- Loneliness
- Low Self-Esteem
- OCD
- Parenting Support
- Physical Abuse
- Redundancy and Unemployment
- Self-Harm
- Shame and Guilt
- Teenager and Young Adult Support